Operations Research & Management Science: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	113
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	79
3	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	73
4	European Journal of Operational Research	70
5	International Journal of Production Economics	68
6	Management Science	66
7	International Journal of Production Research	60
8	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	58
9	Technovation	53
10	Annals of Operations Research	48
11	Safety Science	47
12	Production and Operations Management	44
13	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	43
-	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	43
15	Computers & Operations Research	40
-	International Journal of Systems Science	40
17	Decision Support Systems	39
18	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	38
19	Production Planning & Control	30
20	Transportation Science	25
-	Journal of Operations Management	25
-	Operations Research	25
23	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	22
24	RAIRO-Operations Research	20
-	International Transactions in Operational Research	20
26	Journal of the Operational Research Society	19
-	Systems & Control Letters	19
-	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	19
29	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	18
30	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	17
-	Mathematical Programming	17
-	Engineering Optimization	17
-	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	17
34	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	15
-	Optimization and Engineering	15
36	Mathematics of Operations Research	14
-	Operational Research	14
38	Central European Journal of Operations Research	13
-	Computational Optimization and Applications	13
40	Journal of Global Optimization	12
-	Naval Research Logistics	12
42	Optimization	11
-	Journal of Quality Technology	11
-	Concurrent Engineering-Research and Applications	11
45	Networks	10
-	Operations Research Letters	10
-	OR Spectrum	10
-	Studies in Informatics and Control	10
-	Systems Engineering	10
50	Optimization Methods & Software	9

-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research	9
-	Journal of Scheduling	9
-	Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering	9
54	Queueing Systems	7
-	TOP	7
56	Mathematical Methods of Operations Research	6
-	Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences	6
-	International Journal of Technology Management	6
-	Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications	6
60	Engineering Economist	4
-	INFOR	4